Should government spend money on highways or public transportatio4

Should government spend money on highways or public
transportation?
Should governments spend more money on improving roads and
highways or on improving public transportation? It is a hard
decision to governments when they have only limited money to
allocate. To my opinion, the better way is to improve public
transportation for it carries more advantages than the other one.
The first and foremost, improving public transportation provides
more convenience in transportation and, in turn, facilities cutting the
number of private transportation vehicles, so as to reduce the air
pollution. It is well know that the gas emitted from the cars is the
major reason to cause acid rain and green-house effect, which threat
our normal life more and more. Protecting the environment is one
important role for governments.
The other advantage of improving public transportation is to release
the traffic congestion, which has been a serious problem in our daily
life, especially to people who live in big cities. We spend too more
time on the way to work and go back home. The decrease of private
vehicles is an effective way to solve this problem. On the other
hand, improving roads and highway is also helpful to solve the
problem. However, if the public transportation is not improved, the
dramatically increasing in private cars will comprise the advantage
of more roads and highways.
The last but not the least, people prefer public transportation to
private cars. Using public transportation make people relax and
enjoy the trip. The reason why people use private vehicles is that,
sometime, the public transportation is not contentious enough
comparing to the private vehicles. If the public transportation is
improved, more people will shift to
public transportation accordingly.
In short, improving public transportation is the better way to

effectively solve the problems of pollution and traffic jam than
improving roads and highways. Governments should spend more
money on public transportation instead of roads and highways.